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In contrast the first Act, where Othello is vindicated by virtue of procedural rights, he flatly refuses to grant Desdemona any, including a rejection of her plea to call Cassio as a witness. The tragedy of Desdemona's death, after all, could have been averted the same way that Othello was freed -- through exculpatory witness testimony. Yet Othello, by choosing the path of private vengeance rather than public law, sowed his own bitter harvest, wrongfully killing his wife and love.

I just saw Othello (the one with Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago), and I could have sworn that Othello believes Cassio to be dead at this point in the play. Here's the lines:

DESDEMONA: He found it then; I never gave it him: send for him hither; Let him confess a truth.

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